Problems reporting spam with Pyzor

2005-05-07 Thread Jamie L. Penman-Smithson
I'm having problems reporting spam through pyzor with spamassassin -r. I'm running SA 3.0.2 with amavisd-new and pyzor (1:0.4.0+cvs20030201-4), razor2 (2.670) from Debian (Sid) packages, DCC (from source). Reporting with razor and DCC works fine, it's just pyzor which isn't. The output of spamassa

[SARE] Whiltelist updated

2005-05-07 Thread Robert Menschel
Just a quick note that the SARE whitelist rules file has been updated. Documentation available at http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm The purpose of this rules file is to use the whitelist_from_rcvd to avoid false positives for services that we know do not send out spam. It's suitable for use

Re: Brandy spanky new drug spam trick

2005-05-07 Thread jdow
From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Robert Menschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hello jdow, > > > > Friday, May 6, 2005, 4:21:49 AM, you wrote: > > > > j> From: "Cialis $89, Soma $59, Viagra $69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > j> Guess what? It passes right through all the tests because the

Re: hillsdale media = PWN3D

2005-05-07 Thread List Mail User
>... > >Ok, right on! I fixed the trusted_networks thing, and check this out! > >BTW, the jerks are using another domain.. for a new "division." my god, >CAN-SPAM is a piece of crap. How the *hell* did it get passed? Ugh. > >At least it's getting plonked now. And with that, off to KFC I go... > >

Re: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-07 Thread List Mail User
>... > >I'm starting to see references in messages that look like this: > >www.achat-montre-rolex.net./ > > >Of course, it's not really a valid URL, but then the spam gets through >too. Is it possible to strip excess garbage ( . / ) off the end of the >domain before processing it? > >Running SpamAs

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread List Mail User
>... > >List Mail User wrote: > > >> JohnS, >> >> As many of the regulars on this list can tell you, I *hate* spam >>as much as nearly anyone here; But... Mike is absolutely correct, what >>they have done is "slimely", but is not for most purposes "spam" (IANAL). >>It is UCE (unsolicite

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread Bookworm
List Mail User wrote: To NOT be "spam" and be *cough* condoned UCE, it must 1) Tell you that you're going to get it when you sign up; or 1a) Send you a notification that you are now being signed up for it. (Southwestern Bell doesn't seem to do this either, btw. They created a new list and sig

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread Loren Wilton
> Do I: > YOu have pointed out a key several times, but seemingly missed it. These people are amatuers and newbies to the web. Quite possibly they are doing this whole thing themselves from a "web foe dummies" book. Almost certainly they got the idea of a web site from some customer suggesting

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread List Mail User
>>[old material snipped] >> >http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/108s877.shtml > >Point 1) - "Tell you that you're going to get it when you sign up" The "standard out" for this is a clause like "and you agree to the terms referenced on our standard policies page" - which includes a clause s

Re: URIs being split over multiple lines

2005-05-07 Thread Loren Wilton
> Then there's the other problem: rawbody rules seem to act on a > line-by-line basis, Yes. By design. :-( (Which I consider broken design.) so you can look for /href=h$/ or /^ttp/ but not > /href=h\nttp/ I'm pretty sure (but not positive) that the rawbody rule might have been hitting in this

Way to evade URI checks

2005-05-07 Thread Rakesh
Seems Spammers have found a way to evade the URI checks the domain coolestrxever.com is listed in multi.surbl.org. But the spammers managed to to evade the URI checks by appending special charaters at the end of the url which are happily allowed by the browsers. The spam that I recieved had http

Re: Way to evade URI checks

2005-05-07 Thread Duncan Hill
On Saturday 07 May 2005 07:40, Rakesh wrote: > Seems Spammers have found a way to evade the URI checks > > the domain coolestrxever.com is listed in multi.surbl.org. But the > spammers managed to to evade the URI checks by appending special > charaters at the end of the url which are happily allowe

Re: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-07 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, May 6, 2005, 3:23:56 PM, John Stewart wrote: > I upgraded just the other day (at which point I suspect I broke something) > as I saw on a site somewhere that 2.6.3 was vulnerable to a DOS attack. I > upgraded to 2.6.4 for SA, and 0.25 for SpamCopURI > Grepping through my messages file,

Dccproc error

2005-05-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey, Every so often I see the following message in my maillogs: May 7 04:17:06 prime dccproc[35486]: sendto(dcc.dcc-servers.net (132.206.27.31,6277)): Socket is already connected is it harmless? A sign of a "stuck" dcc connection? Is there some way to quell it? -Dan -- "What's with the serve

RE: Way to evade URI checks

2005-05-07 Thread martin smith
M>-Original Message- M>From: Rakesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>Sent: 07 May 2005 07:41 M>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org M>Subject: Way to evade URI checks M> M>Seems Spammers have found a way to evade the URI checks M> M>the domain coolestrxever.com is listed in mult

Jacking up scores based on addy?

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. Got a question. I've got a couple addresses I monitor for mail that only get like 1-2 legitimate mails out of every thousand or so, but I need those emails, but at the same time I'd like to either raise the values on inbound mail to just those addresses so that they score higher, or l

Re: Jacking up scores based on addy?

2005-05-07 Thread Loren Wilton
I *think* what you are asking is, of you get mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you want it to be biased upward a bit, but mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't be? There is no convenient way you can multiply the spam scores to get them to hit harder on some accounts. But you can pretty trivially apply a fixed

Re: Way to evade URI checks

2005-05-07 Thread Steven Stern
Rakesh wrote: Content preview: Seems Spammers have found a way to evade the URI checks the domain coolestrxever.com is listed in multi.surbl.org. But the spammers managed to to evade the URI checks by appending special charaters at the end of the url which are happily allowed by the br

SpamAssassin 3.0.2 flags messages from users@spamassassin.apache.org

2005-05-07 Thread Martin G. Diehl
Greetings, I am seeing some SpamAssassin eMail messages flagged as SPAM. That's probably not unusual, given the nature of our discussions and especially because we quote actual SPAM examples within our messages. I know that someone is going to say, "whitelist" ... The settings for my profile includ

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Cameron
I'm still torn on whether to show up for my appointment at 1pm. I think just because I was treated with contempt by the person I spoke to earlier, I don't want to give them my money... Absolutely not. Vote with your wallet.

Re: "Transport endpoint is not connected"?

2005-05-07 Thread David Gibbs
David Gibbs wrote: > May 6 17:50:38 linux spamd[3396]: error: Insecure dependency in eval > while running setuid at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line > 1958, line 57._ Transport endpoint is not connected, continuing I ran spamd in debug mode for a while, hop

Any insight on these "lists"? [I think they are spam]

2005-05-07 Thread Tom Emerson
I'm finally getting around to actually cleaning my inbox and I find I appear to be on a couple of e-mail lists that I don't recall signing up for, nor do the contents of the messages score high enough to be kicked out, so I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else knows of them. One in particu

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/6/05, List Mail User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, there is an unfortunate exception provided by Sec 3.17 > which allows "Transactional or relationship message-" and in particular > clause A.iii.I specifically allows "notification concerning a change in > the terms or features of

[SARE] Rules update: genlsubj and obfu

2005-05-07 Thread Robert Menschel
Just a quick note that the SARE subject rules and obfuscation rules have been updated. Documentation available at http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm Note: Many of the subject rules were testing for obfuscations within the subject headings. These have been moved to the obfuscation rules files